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Guarding Life's Dark Secrets - Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy (Hardcover)
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Guarding Life's Dark Secrets - Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy (Hardcover)
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"Guarding Life's Dark Secrets" tells the story of an intriguing
aspect of the social and legal culture in the United States, the
construction and destruction of a network of doctrines designed to
protect reputation. The strict and unbending rules of decency and
propriety of the nineteenth century, especially concerning sexual
behavior, paradoxically provided ways to protect and shield
respectable men and women who deviated from the official norms.
This "Victorian compromise," which created an important zone of
privacy, first came under attack from moralists for its tolerance
of sin. During the second half of the twentieth century, the old
structure was largely dismantled by an increasingly permissive
society.
Rich with anecdotes, Friedman's account draws us into the present.
The Supreme Court has interpreted the Constitution to include a
right of privacy, which has given ordinary people increased
freedom, especially in matters of sex, reproduction, and choice of
intimate partners. The elite, however, no longer have the freedom
they once had to violate decency rules with impunity. Although
public figures may have lost some of their privacy rights, ordinary
people have gained more privacy, greater leeway, and broader
choices. These gains, however, are now under threat as technology
transforms the modern world into a world of surveillance.
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